Goa, not for sale!
By Ethel Da Costa -
submitted by author Mar 9, 2005 & now on http://www.colaco.net
============ a TGF response=======
EDC1: We've become a joke. TGF: We know
EDC2: It is we, Goans, the common man on the street who fends for his daily bread and butter, who has been made to look like an ass.
TGF2: We know
EDC3: So much for being the country's No 1 State! TGF3: One can be No 1 in anything.......err....like stupidity...right?
EDC4: Utt Goenkara! Why are we still found dozing? TGF4: We don't knnnoooooow why!
EDC5: It is time to say Goa is not a haven for political goondas. Goa has not been pawned to political hooligans. Goa will not be used and abused like a prostitute (even they exercise respect for their profession). Goa will not sell into the hands of political pimps and other lowly creatures who use force, intimidation and mobs to vent out their frustration when things don't go their way.
TGF5: OK we said all those thingt...now what? Can we go back to sleep and pretend that all and sundry is hunky dory?
EDC6: This is `murder of democracy,' when sycophants take to the streets and vandalise public and private property for being bad losers. We've seen examples of State sponsored vandalism in Mapusa, Fountainhas, Panjim and Vasco already.
TGF6: That couldn't be right. Most of your colleagues are not saying that. It's only Ethel and a few of her sycophants who say that.
EDC7: These are the political parties that have us believe we can trust our fate in their hands. These are the leaders who promise to take Goa into the 21st century? By destroying private property? By intimidating, threatening and causing bodily harm to members of the Press? By stone throwing and physical violence caused to citizens and to the Head of the State? By breaking the law, because for years they have been a law unto themselves?
TGF7: Wake up girl! This is what Liberation is all about. Where are you? still in the pre-1961 time warp?
EDC8: Is this the political party that, until a few months, was breast beating their victory for having 'developed' Goa?
TGF8: Parrrrrty, it is! Hip Hip Hurray!
EDC9: We deserve it. Because we are blinded by money that political parties use to buy our silence and our values.
TGF9: Or we are blinded by a few fancy-pancy roads and some bridges which can be automatically closed for Bollywood parrrrrties.
EDC10: Friday's incidents unleashed by the Saffron brigade in the city was nothing short of an attempt to riot. And we almost got there, but for the timely presence of the cops, though I understand the cops too have yet to come to terms with shifted sentiments and loyalties with a change in power. But a situation well controlled, nevertheless.
TGF10: Hey, you know what happens when you add Saffron to your food? Too much makes it bitter remember. And.....there is always a price to pay for Saffron! It is expensive stuff.
EDC11: It forces you to pause and ask yourself where we are heading? Where is Goa heading?
TGF11: Oh Oh!
EDC12: We are party to this instability because our voices are heavy with guilt. Our shoulders burdened with the weight of an uneasy conscience.
TGF12: Touch�
EDC13: We agree we have been let down, time and again. But do we agree that we have been party to this haven of criminals all intent to rule the State their way?
TGF13: Never! Not us! after we kicked out those bad Portuguese, NO criminals have remained in Goa.
EDC14: Why don't we realize that we have an active role to play in deciding the future of Goa with our participation in State building, as much as we have the power to decide the leader who will lead the State to perpetual prosperity?
TGF14: Must be the caju feni we have been drinking....or the Metahnyized water. Are you listen Mr Oliveira or Mr. Saldanha?
EDC15: We must ask for better choices. We must encourage new faces to take on the lead and support them. We must demand better manifestos that keep Goa as the Number One priority before their pockets.
TGF15: Naka goh bai. Amka ani naka tem choices boices. This Tiatr is Faaan Nn?
EDC16: Maybe its time for a third front?
TGF16: Yes Yes. Every couple years, we have a new Third Front with New name. That is besht. This time new one: Goa bachao Andolan Samiti Sammelan Parrrty. As long as there is Parrrty and Goa in it, you are guaranteed two votes.
EDC17: So, who fires this gun? TGF17: (typical Goemcar response) - you first!
with much love to our dear Ethel - one of the few consistently "right on" voices among the Goan so called press.
TGF March 9, 2005
BTW: ->
EDC18: Goa, not for sale!
TGF18: Sorry dear EDC. Goa has been sold a long time ago while Caju Feni was flowing, "They" were towing Goa right in front of the eyes of the "Goanese".
And what did the "Goanese" say? .... two things
1. Aum Saiba Poltiddi vetam 2. Bhalle Bhalle Bhalle!
(;-)
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